Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Automated Grading: AI can automate the scoring of assessment tests, homework, essays and other assignments. Reduced Teacher Workload: AI tutors, virtual teaching assistants and automated admin systems can help reduce teacher workload. This helps students move through material at their own pace, whether faster or slower.

Education 183

Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 183

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

Meanwhile, research is also being conducted today to understand how chatbots can be used as teaching assistants. In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I

Teaching 150

Teaching Instructors Teaching Assistants Counselling 150

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

One document they obtained outlines a set of possible services Academic Partnerships provides that includes “utilize virtual teaching assistance,” and also talks about details including course lengths and caps on enrollment. AP does not provide any teaching assistance nor oversight of it,” she added.

Teaching Assistants 120

Teaching Assistants Instructors Coaching Counselling 120

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Specifically, she felt that emails between professors and students led to inequalities when it came to which students understood material or got clarifications on how to do assignments. So if her goal was to revamp the way professors and students communicate, how does she grade her efforts? “I She called her startup Piazza.

Communication 196

Communication Learning Culture Students 196

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Once they sign up for courses, an assigned mentor is supposed to check in on them regularly—sometimes even weekly—through a call or text or video meeting. In practice, that meant each Monday, text messages were sent reminding students about assignments due that week, along with estimates for how much time each task would likely take.

Student Engagement 201

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 201

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Erika, grade 10 math and science teacher Clear Guidelines Pave the Way for Teachers to Embrace Technology More Fully I was able to create lessons with no preparation. It was much faster than if I was making my own teaching tools. Christine, grade 1 teacher Fully leveraging one’s LMS can also help teachers save time.

Teachers 140

Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 140

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

And for students, Wesch organized the course not as a series of traditional assignments, but as a set of 10 challenges that introduce basic concepts of anthropology. He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe. embassy to get him out. “I

Textbooks 162

Textbooks Teaching Assistants Instructors Exams 162

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 31, 2016

An LMS — Learning Management System — is a digital tool that tracks a wide variety of student-teacher interactions such as homework, grading, sharing of resources, parent communication, assessments, and more. Features include: ability to grade, distribute, and collect assignments and materials. Did I miss it?

Assignments 84

Assignments Testing Grades Classroom Management 84

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A teacher presents a concept, offers examples, assigns homework, and then reviews the assignments once submitted. We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment. For instance, consider the traditional classroom scenario.

Intelligence 122

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 122

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

You could also include reminders of any tasks or assignments that need to be completed in the first week. Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Arkansas. Predicting Student Attitudes and Grades from Perceptions of Instructos’ Attitudes. Teaching of Psychology, 33 (2), 91-95.

Instructors 122

Instructors Syllabus Attention Teaching Assistants 122

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A teacher presents a concept, offers examples, assigns homework, and then reviews the assignments once submitted. We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment. For instance, consider the traditional classroom scenario.

Intelligence 110

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 110

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half When budget cuts threatened to close the anthropology department at Kansas State University, one professor, Michael Wesch, fought back—by changing up his teaching. As with most experiments, not everything went according to plan.

Education 134

Education Textbooks Attention Teaching Assistants 134

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Apart from course evaluation, which is embedded within the normal semester, and kind of a mandatory process, I think the other stakeholder that we often forget is the teaching assistants. Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated?

Teaching 121

Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 121

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For example, if you look at the Jill Watson experiment at Georgia Tech, where they created a virtual teaching assistant, the students in the class didn't know that they were talking to a bot. Really what mattered where things that were graded, like quizzes and tests and assignments. How does that work?

Education 167

Education Quizzes Writing Online Learning 167

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment. designing an assessment in addition to grading it). Teaching is inherently a job with high task significance, which is perhaps why many of us are drawn to it. The same motion is used over and over again to perform the work.

Course Design 96

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 96

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

You could also include reminders of any tasks or assignments that need to be completed in the first week. Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Arkansas. Predicting Student Attitudes and Grades from Perceptions of Instructos’ Attitudes. Teaching of Psychology, 33 (2), 91-95.

Instructors 98

Instructors Syllabus Attention Teaching Assistants 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment. designing an assessment in addition to grading it). Teaching is inherently a job with high task significance, which is perhaps why many of us are drawn to it. The same motion is used over and over again to perform the work.

Course Design 87

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 87

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

We wanted faculty to feel supported engaging in the work of effective mathematics teaching, students to feel that they had increased opportunities to get help with class activities and assignments, and the LAs themselves to feel valued and gain meaningful experiences through their work in the classroom. Education Sciences, 8 (4), 168.

Learning 98

Learning Instructors Math STEM 98

Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2025

If students received only an overall grade for a lab report with little or no feedback on its construction and contents, exactly how the lab report is created and what is should contain remains a piece of hidden curriculum (Almairi et al., 2018) Grading for equity: What it is, why it matters, and how it can transform schools and classrooms.

Laboratory 52

Laboratory Instructors Feedback Writing 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”). As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams.

Exams 215

Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

Students who want proof of completion and access to all of the resources of the course—including feedback from teaching assistants—must buy a Coursera membership that costs $49 per month. Kian Katanforoosh is the co-creator for the deep learning courses and is listed as the Head Teaching Assistant for all of them. “We

Teaching 140

Teaching Laboratory Textbooks Intelligence 140

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

They logged into a learning management system, which displays personal profile information, homework assignments and professor office hours. Additionally, Shorelight hired local, bilingual teaching assistants to staff its student studios. That’s the psychology built around this.” and 11 a.m.

Instructors 133

Instructors Students Participation Distance Learning 133